[digiKam-users] Can one change one metadata item in several images easily?

[Chris Green]

I have a need to change one metadata item in a lot of images (it's
basically a typo in an exif item).  Is there any way to do this in
Digikam?

I tried selecting several images and then using Edit Metadata but it
only changed the data in the first of the selected images.

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Chris Green
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[woenx]

Have you tried using the Batch Queue Manager and edit the metadata from
there?



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[Chris Green]

woenx <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Have you tried using the Batch Queue Manager and edit the metadata from
> there?
>
That can apply a Template but the Batch Queue Manager isn't really
oriented towards editing files in place, it wants to transform things
and store them in a new file.

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[Noeck]

Dear Chris,

> I have a need to change one metadata item in a lot of images

I am hoping for such a functionality for years, but unfortunately there
is no easy way. I wrote my own python scripts which query the digikam
sqlite-database (because it's faster than reading through all the files)
and then applies changes to exif metadata according to tags.

Unfortunately, these scripts are too messy to be generally useful. I
hope that I can find some time to improve and publish them.

I would really like a metadata editor where you can select multiple
files and just edit some part of the metadata and leave the rest as is.

Cheers,
Joram

[woenx]

Yep, that would be very practical.

Some time ago, I used a ID3 tag editor for correcting info in mp3 files
called EasyTAG. Often, you want to modify the artist, the year, or the album
name in a group of songs, so there was a special button next to each field
to apply that value to the whole selection and not only the current song.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/6tU7A.png Here, in this picture it's labelled with
the number 4.

Something like that should be relatively easy to implement.



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[Chris Green]

Noeck <[hidden email]> wrote:

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> Dear Chris,
>
> > I have a need to change one metadata item in a lot of images
>
> I am hoping for such a functionality for years, but unfortunately there
> is no easy way. I wrote my own python scripts which query the digikam
> sqlite-database (because it's faster than reading through all the files)
> and then applies changes to exif metadata according to tags.
>
> Unfortunately, these scripts are too messy to be generally useful. I
> hope that I can find some time to improve and publish them.
>
> I would really like a metadata editor where you can select multiple
> files and just edit some part of the metadata and leave the rest as is.
>

There's photini which does a fair job of what you want, it's in the
Ubuntu repositories so you may find it elsewhere as well.

I too have several Python scripts for doing specific jobs to metadata.


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Chris Green
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